I want to spread the word about Big Clive’s DIY LED product pages.  He not only has tons of projects listed for you to make and create, but he also sells printed boards and other materials to get you started.  This particular project involved retrofitting a 500W halogen floodlight enclosure with 180 LEDs (RGB) to make a monster bright LED floodlight.  You have to check out Big Clive’s website!

The “Things to Make and Do” section is where all of the DIY projects are listed.

Make Mag has an article linked from Evil Scientist Labs’ blog featuring edge-lit christmas cards.  These things look pretty simple - some kind of relatively thick poly, an LED, and a battery.  Oh, and some card stock.  You have to check out this article.  Very cool stuff, and pretty easy!  Just don’t slice yourself with the exacto knife!

Make Mag has a purchasable kit for the HexPummer LED lantern - which is solar powered!  The little LEDs inside “pumm” when the levels of light go down, draining the batteries in the little device of the day’s rays.

These things are cool!  You know me and the nerdy stuff!

Have you ever checked out the “Maker’s Shed” at Make Magazine?  Do you like to put stuff together and build circuits?  Check out the Maker’s Shed.

Instructables user kc6qhp has posted AND WON FIRST PLACE FOR the instructable regarding his Kilo-Lumen bicycle headlamp.  This thing is ridiculously bright!  Check out the instructable!  This thing is about 1200 lumens, and runs on an 18V Ryobi battery.  Not for the timid!

HackNMod, one of my favorite DIY hacking blogs, posted an article about building LED devices that interpret audio signal into orchestrated light.  Check out this video:

This guy has premade kits - but it’s as easy as following an instructable.  Cool!  I hope my wife isn’t too upset when I build one of these large enough to light up our whole second floor!  (Just kidding, honey!)

Being the dork that I am, building my own computers and such, I read a blog called Hack N’ Mod - they posted an article not too long ago with some awesome LED projects showcased, like LED clothing, reactive LED mods, and a few really interesting LED ideas.  Check it out here.

For you hackers out there, check out this instructable on making a 64 LED, individually programmable 3D cube.  The Atmel Atmega16 microcontroller spec’ed in this instructable gives you the ability to program all kinds of great three-dimensional effects.  Check it out, and thanks to instructables user “chr” for this one!

User QuackMasterDan on Instructables (the DIY blog) has posted a very in-depth article about creating your own LED ambient light bar. Using a strip of metal wire mount, some LED’s, and a wall-wart power supply, you too can have some ambient LED coolness like QuackMasterDan here.

Now, these aren’t high output, they’re not “designer,” and they’re not terribly efficient.  However, they are quick, easy, and in a pinch, excellent.  If you could find a lot of high output LED’s, you’d be set for the evening!

Check out the article, well worth it.